A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, ...
Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...
A team of researchers suggests that four key brain patterns and behaviors that indicate conscious awareness in adults could be used to test consciousness in infants. For example, a telltale brain ...
What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...
Sitting on the Marine Atlantic ferry, I’m watching the Newfoundland skyline disappear on the horizon as I type away. I see the rocking of the ocean waves, inhale its salty breeze, feel and hear the ...
“This retroactive idea. It has to be that,” says Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose, reflecting on a problem about the building blocks of reality that has dogged physics for ...
The controversial idea that quantum effects in the brain can explain consciousness has passed a key test. Experiments show that anaesthetic drugs reduce how long tiny structures found in brain cells ...
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